In the Treaty of Paris France ceded Canada to Britain and the Louisiana Territory, including New Orleans, to Spain. Spain gave up its claim to Florida. Shortly after the Treaty, King George issued a ...

Community-based research led by the Tsleil-Waututh Nation offers insight into how colonization has impacted the waters around ...

The legacy of Earl Lovelace is already part of us. Across novels, plays, poems, essays, and addresses, he has worked to rouse ...

For nearly two centuries, the Danish West Indies were entangled in the brutal Atlantic Slave Trade, which saw the forced displacement, cultural erasure, and enslavement of millions of African and ...

Our kinfolk of the British Virgin Islands and English West Indies had been freed by act of emancipation on August 28, 1833, and many of us flock to the BVI on the first Monday in August to ...

For nearly two centuries, the Danish West Indies were entangled in the brutal Atlantic Slave Trade, which saw the forced displacement, cultural erasure, and enslavement of millions of African and ...

One evening last week in Port-of-Spain, the political chieftains of the British West Indies and dignified officials from London's Colonial Office, attending a dance recital, leaped gaily up and ...

"It is the fairest land that eyes have beheld," wrote Christopher Columbus when he discovered the Caribbean island of Jamaica in 1494. This winter 100,000 sun-seeking North American ...

Commemoration of Negro Emancipation in the British West Indies.; ORATION BY FRED DOUGLASS. Grand Festival of Colored Folks at Poughkeepsie.

Yesterday was the anniversary of the slave emancipation in the British West Indies, This took place on the 1st of August, 1834, and, from the year after that period, the colored people of this ...

AT a time when so many of the colored peoples of the world are demanding and gaining their independence from colonial rule, it is something of an anomaly to find a people who, having taken a second ...

The new book “A Closer Look” by Kathleen D. Dowling, a native Crucian, sheds new light on the Danish West Indies Emancipation. (Photo by Olasee Davis) It is a book that sheds new light on the 1848 ...